Rome and the Guidebook Tradition Rome and the Guidebook Tradition From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century Edited by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota ISBN 978-3-11-061044-4 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-061563-0 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-061578-4 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives4.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2018963421 Bibliografic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliografic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck Cover image: Giambattista Nolli, Nuova Pianta di Roma (1748). Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons www.degruyter.com Acknowledgements The project “Topos and Topography: Rome as the Guidebook City” has been based at the Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome between 2013 and 2016, and financed by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). The seven members of the project – also known as “the seven hills of Rome”–are Anna Blennow, Anna Bortolozzi, Carina Burman, Stefano Fogelberg Rota, Sabrina Norlander Eliasson, Victor Plahte Tschudi, and Frederick Whitling. The chapters of the present publication contain the results of the subprojects of the participants, as well as a valuable addition in the form of a study of Ludwig Schudt’sinfluentialLe Guide di Roma, performed by four scholars at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (estimated neighbour of the Swedish Institute in via Omero): Arnold Witte, Head of Art History at the Netherlands Institute, together with Eva van Kemenade, Niels Graaf, and Joëlle Terburg. We are deeply grateful to Chief Executive Göran Blomqvist, Research Manager Britta Lövgren, and Head of Communications Jenny Björkman at the Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, for their continuous interest in and support for the project, as well as to Barbro Santillo Frizell, former Director of the Swedish Institute, for encouraging our project idea, and to Kristian Göransson, present Director of the Institute, who has supported the project throughout its active period. We would also like to thank the skilled and supportive staff of the Swedish Institute in Rome: Liv d’Amelio, Astrid Capoferro, Fanny Lind, Linda Lindqvist, Margareta Ohlson Lepscky, Stefania Renzetti, and Ingrid Willstrand. During the project period, workshops were held at the Swedish Institute in Rome in March 2013, October 2013, June 2014 and March 2015. The members of the scientific reference group of the project – Michael Rowlands, Chloe Chard, Claes Gejrot, Anders Cullhed, Bengt Lewan, and Simon Malmberg – participated actively and enthusias- tically at these workshops, and we are deeply grateful for the expertise, challenge and support they provided. We also wish to thank the externally invited scholars who contributed with both theoretical insights and practical vistas concerning Rome and its guidebooks: Mario Bevilacqua, Ray Laurence, Börje Magnusson, Thomas Velle, Wim Verbaal, and last but not least Jilke Golbach, the “adopted” PhD-student of the project. Thematically orientated workshops were held in Gothenburg, April 2014 (the genre-focused seminar Reading the City, Walking the Text, a collaboration with the department of Languages and Literatures and the department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg), and in Oslo, September 2014 (Seeing the Non-Existent: Projections of Rome and Pompeii in Guidebooks, in colla- boration with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design). Our thanks go to Beata Agrell, Eva Haettner Aurelius, Monica Hellström, Bo Lindberg, Lars Lönnroth, and Open Access. © 2019 Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615630-201 VI Acknowledgements Mats Malm, for participating in the Gothenburg workshop; to Mari Hvattum, found- ing member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies, and Erik Langdalen, Head of Institute of Form, Theory and History, for hosting the Oslo workshop, to Victor Plahte Tschudi for the brilliant arrangements in Oslo; and to the invited scholars Henrik Boman, Unn Falkeid, Ingrid Rowland, Ola Svenle, and Christopher Wood, for contributing with presentations at the workshop. In August 2015, the project held a one-week workshop at Fondation Hardt, Geneva. We want to thank Director Pierre Ducrey for the precious opportunity to stay at the Foundation, General Secretary Gary Vachicouras and Librarian Pascale Derron for great assistance and hospitality, and Anna Cullhed and Mikael Ahlund for their participation as external reviewers in the text discussions of the workshop. During the stay, the project participants also undertook a study trip to Einsiedeln Abbey to admire the Einsiedeln manuscript no. 326, regarded as one of the oldest guidebooks to Rome. We send our thanks to Stiftsbibliothekar Pater Justinus Pagnamenta for receiving us. In autumn 2016, a guidebook exhibition was arranged in collaboration with Uppsala university library, with the accompanying catalogue Att Resa till Rom – guideböcker till den eviga staden genom tiderna (edited by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota). We wish to thank Chief Librarian Lars Burman; Head of the Special Collections Division Maria Berggren; Senior Restorer Lars Björdal, who curated the exhibition; Deputy Head of the Special Collections Division Åsa Henningsson; gra- phic designer Camilla Eriksson, and visitors’ coordinator Annika Windahl Pontén. The catalogue was printed through a generous contribution by the Friends of the Swedish Institute in Rome, and our heartfelt thanks go to them, and to the Chairman of the association, Suzanne Unge-Sörling. The concluding conference of the project, Topoi, Topographies and Travellers, was held at the Swedish Institute in Rome in November 2016, with around twenty invited speakers from various countries and disciplines. The papers of the conference will be published in the digital series Projects and Seminars via the Swedish Institute in Rome during 2019. The publication of this book has been funded by the Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences and by Sven och Dagmar Saléns Stiftelse. Rome, December 2018 Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Project leaders of “Topos and Topography” Contents Acknowledgements V The authors IX Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Introduction 1 Anna Blennow 1 Wanderers and Wonders. The Medieval Guidebooks to Rome 33 Victor Plahte Tschudi 2 Two Sixteenth-Century Guidebooks and the Bibliotopography of Rome 89 Anna Bortolozzi 3 Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome 115 Stefano Fogelberg Rota 4 Fioravante Martinelli’s Roma ricercata nel suo sito and his “lettore forastiero” 163 Sabrina Norlander Eliasson 5 “Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque”. The Baedeker Effect and the Arts: Shortcuts to Artistic Appreciation in Nineteenth- Century Rome 197 Frederick Whitling 6 Mental Maps and the Topography of the Mind. A Swedish Guide to the Roman Centuries 229 Carina Burman 7 Ellen Rydelius’ Rom på 8 dagar (Rome in 8 Days). A Story of Change and Success 275 Arnold Witte, Eva van Kemenade, Niels Graaf and Joëlle Terburg 8 Codifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930) 313 VIII Contents Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Appendix I: Must-See Monuments – the Colosseum in Guidebooks through the Centuries 339 Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Appendix II: Itineraries through Trastevere from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century 345 Name Index 349 Place Index 355 The authors Anna Blennow PhD in Latin, University of Gothenburg, 2006, Associate Professor of Latin at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. Anna Bortolozzi PhD in History and Theory of architecture, School of Architecture IUAV, Venice, 2005, Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Carina Burman PhD in Literature, Uppsala University 1988, novelist, Associate Professor of Literature at Uppsala University. Sabrina Norlander Eliasson PhD in Art History, Uppsala University 2003, Associate Professor in Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University; Director of the international master program Technical Art History and the Art Museum. Niels Graaf MA in History, University of Amsterdam, 2015, PhD candidate at Utrecht University. Eva van Kemenade MA in History, University of Amsterdam, 2018, PhD candidate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Stefano Fogelberg Rota PhD in Literature, Stockholm University, 2008, Associate Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University. Joëlle Terburg MA in Book History and Classics, University of Amsterdam, 2010/2016, staff member at the Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten, Amsterdam. Victor Plahte Tschudi PhD in Art History, University of Oslo, 2007, Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Oslo School of Architecture